Magnets Non-Fiction by Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin When I was younger my father and I would take apart car engines. Run experiments in the basement up North. Make fun of everything because we could always agree on what we didn’t like. Now I come home from the West Coast for a couple of weeks over Christmas, a
““Totally Hosed”: Adult Life and the Kafkan Parable in Wallace’s “Adult World”” Academic Essay by Taylor Tomko
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“Pakistan. 2005” Poem by Kate Reilly
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“The Great Bear Rainforest: Overcoming 500-Year-Old Views on Nature” Academic Essay by Cameron Bullen
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“Fields Beyond Warszawa” Poem by Ania Jedrzejczyk
image by Andrea Garza Fields Beyond Warszawa Poem by Ania Jedrzejczyk A city, a mermaid-fisherman love affair, a burial ground: Warsaw pales into summer dusk. She picks herself up from rye, barley, poppy fields, peels her steel spine from the horizon. Like a paper cut-out, Pałac Kultury towers over the sky: a sandstone giant, a soviet
“Ninjas – Invisible in More Ways than One: Orientalism in Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Academic Essay by Emma Coffin
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“The “Object Deaths” and Reconfigurations of Hrunting, the Giant’s Sword, and Nægling: Swords as Objects and Actors in Beowulf” Academic Essay by Sara Dueck
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About the Contributors
About Our Contributors Afeed Areifiz is a second year English major who moved to Vancouver close to two years ago, from Bangladesh, to attend UBC. Deanna Chan is in her final semester at UBC, working towards a double major in French and Honours English Literature. She loves writer’s block, condescending comments about her degree, and
“Olivetti Lettera 22” Multimedia by Mormei Zanke
Olivetti Lettera 22 Multimedia by Mormei Zanke
“Do you want to watch a documentary?” Poem by Katie Selbee
Illustration by Simone Williamson Do you want to watch a documentary? Poem by Katie Selbee Our days slip in to each other’s. Smooth like you, they lean forward, hesitate a moment and fold in to themselves like wet paper coffee filters and closing newspapers; we can’t tell whose day is whose anymore and I am here
“Fealty and Fear: Notions of Kingship in The Lord of the Rings” Academic Essay by Deanna Chan
Fealty and Fear: Notions of Kingship in The Lord of the Rings Academic Essay by Deanna Chan Anglo-Saxon culture pervades J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and is especially visible in the social structure and practices that bind subjects to their ruler in Middle Earth. In particular, Tolkien seems to have borrowed the Anglo-Saxon
“Broke.” Prose by Bára Hladíková
Illustration by Anne Tastad Broke. Prose by Bára Hladíková Every one of our appliances broke the week we were trying to break up. It started with the toaster. I had just received my results for Celiac disease: positive. I decided to eat all the bread in our apartment and then never again. That meant the seven
“Untitled 1 & 2” Multimedia by Andrea Garza
Untitled 1 & 2 Multimedia by Andrea Garza (click to enlarge images)
“On the Way” Poem by Afeed Areifiz
On the Way Poetry by Afeed Areifiz You know what I grew up on? Fish, rice, curry, and the stories of a generation that had to beg for them I grew up on badly-paved streets, faulty drainage and whispers of electricity, and the lives of the people who had fallen in love with them I
“Bang! Ka-Pow!” Fiction by Christina Hu
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